Welcome to this week’s History Thread! It’s the 51st anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, which crushed the Prague Spring and its reformist government under Alexander Dubcek. Continue reading The Weekly History Thread With a Human Face

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today is the anniversary of Cortes’s conquest of Tenochtitlan and the fall of the Aztec Empire. Discuss what you will, it is an open thread today. Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread. Today is the 400th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Virginia General Assembly, the first European-led legislative body in the New World. Naturally, it has sparked controversy, from discussions about the acknowledgment of … Continue reading The 400th Anniversary History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! This week’s discussion question is judging the past through modern eyes. It’s hard not to look at past events without using our own lens of judgment. How much are you willing to forgive, or … Continue reading The Judgmental History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s the anniversary of the exploding of the first atomic bomb at White Sands, outside Alamogordo, New Mexico (July 16, 1945). Continue reading The Explosive Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today we can discuss historical distortions; events or people who are commonly misrepresented. We’ve talked a lot about things like the American Founding Fathers and the Lost Cause in this thread before, feel free … Continue reading The Defeated History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! It’s the anniversary of one of the most decisive battles of the Brazilian Independence War, the fall of Salvador after a 16 month siege, and I wish I knew more about the subject so … Continue reading The Shortest Weekly History Thread Yet

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today is the anniversary of (among other things) George Custer’s defeat by the Sioux and Cheyenne at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a classic case of tactical ineptitude that became celebrated, for many … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread’s Last Stand

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s picture: June 18, 1940 saw two of the most famous speeches of the Second World War. With France virtually overrun by Nazi Germany and the British military in humiliating retreat, Winston Churchill gave … Continue reading The Appealing Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s picture: On June 11, 1963, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolated himself in Saigon. Quang Duc was a legendary figure in Vietnamese Buddhism, having spent decades building the Mahayana faith across Indochina and … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Protests

Uh…so…I don’t really know what to do here.   So…today is the 30th Anniversary of the Massacre. From what I gather, Chinese people are still not allowed to talk about it…even though few of them seem to care about it … Continue reading The History Thread Calls It the 35th of May

Welcome to this week’s History Thread. This week’s topic: What subject do you want to learn more about? We all have gaps in our historical knowledge. Use this space to ask for information or reading/documentary/podcast recommendations on historical subjects you’d … Continue reading The History Thread Crosses the T

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! I don’t have much to say today, except that it’s the release date for Brenda Wineapple’s The Impeachers, a new book on Andrew Johnson that I’ve been looking forward to for ages. The New … Continue reading The Impeachable History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s picture: Today is the 71st anniversary of Israeli independence. After a prolonged political and insurgent struggle with Great Britain, Israel was granted independence, becoming the modern world’s first Jewish state under the leadership … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Apologies for last week, I was too deep in research to start a thread. We will have an open discussion this week, so feel free to discuss any and all history-related topics. Today is … Continue reading The Fall of the Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Sadly, real-world events inspired this week’s topic: Lost historical treasures. Over the millennia places of incalculable worth to history have been lost to the sands of time, whether through deliberate destruction, carelessness or natural … Continue reading The Lost History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! It’s the anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the Nazi invasion of Denmark and Norway, and a variety of other historical events. I will declare this another open thread so feel free to discuss … Continue reading The History Thread Surrenders

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Discussion topic for this week: how much time do you invest in history? Do you work in a history-related field, or study it in school? Is it just a minor hobby or a lifelong … Continue reading The One-Eyed History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s picture: It’s Independence Day in Bangladesh, commemorating the beginning of their bloody struggle for freedom from Pakistan. When India and Pakistan were partitioned by the British, the latter was originally divided into West … Continue reading The Independent History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s picture: On March 19, 1853 forces of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace seized the city of Nanjing, China and established it as the capital of their Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Their leader, Hong Xiuquan, … Continue reading The Heavenly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Our subject this week will be explorers, exploration and their impact. I finally read Charles C. Mann’s 1493 after much prodding from this site’s users, and it seems like a good springboard to discuss … Continue reading The History Thread Explores (and Plots a Coup)!